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A few weeks ago, staff of the UMFA collections department unrolled two tapestries in our Great Hall. There was a dual purpose to this work: the first, was to do some gentle cleaning and make condition reports (faithful readers will recall this process from previous textile entries). The second purpose was to invite students from Professor Jessen Kelly’s course on Renaissance Material Culture into the museum to get up close and personal with these incredible pieces. Students had the chance to […]

Happy Volunteer week! We’re excited for another opportunity to recognize some of the fantastic people that give so much to their community through their work at the UMFA. Dedicated readers of our blog might remember this volunteer from earlier entries about the conservation of textiles. Collections Volunteers working on the Textile Project have helped create condition reports, clean, and safely re-house 270 textiles in the UMFA collection! Meet Ruth Ann Gardner What do you like most about volunteering at the UMFA? […]

Our ongoing blog series for the month of May, Textile Tuesday, draws to a close today. This doesn’t mean that we won’t be checking in on the project throughout its duration (remember: it may last for a couple of years yet!) It just means that, for now, the weekly updates are winding down. Textile Tuesday has been a lot of fun for me. For one, it’s always exciting to visit the basement of the UMFA. For another, it was a […]

Welcome back to Textile Tuesday, where we’ve been following the fascinating goings-on in the basement of the UMFA. So far we’ve examined the why and the how–now it’s time for an introduction to the who. Every Wednesday in the basement of the UMFA, a number of people are hard at work. These include members of our staff (Jennifer Ortiz, Collections Manager, and Carol Fulton, Collection Assistant), some of our docents (Harsha Acharya, Bernadette Brown, and Maria Villa), as well as […]

Welcome to the first installment of Textile Tuesday! Every Tuesday for the entire month of May we are going behind the scenes to witness an exciting project going on in the basement of the UMFA: the cleaning, preservation, and cataloging of our textile collection. Jennifer Ortiz, our Collections Manager, explains that a textile is defined as “any object that is woven of material, made with artificial or natural fibers.” There is no official definition that the UMFA uses to categorize […]